Li Guiren took the lead in leading the cavalry to the bottom of Tongguan City, and shouted to the city head through the deep trench: "Niu Tingjie, quickly put down the drawbridge!" Quickly lower the drawbridge and let us into the city. ”

Li Chongbao squatted behind General Niu and pressed his blade against his back, forcing him to play the leading role again.

From the perspective of the rebels under the city, Niu Tingjie stiffened his way to the battlements and asked, "Why did General Li enter the customs in such a hurry?" ”

"Our army is newly defeated! Withdraw from Tongguan first, and then open the city gate quickly!"

Niu Tingjie asked again: "How many people are left in our army?"

"Where is so much nonsense, let's talk about it when we enter the city!"

General Niu suddenly imitated the back of his ear, covered his ear with one hand and said, "What did you say?" Come closer and talk. ”

Li Guiren didn't know what the plan was, so he urged him to take a few steps forward and said loudly: "Are you deaf, hurry up and open the city gate!" ”

Chongbao quickly stood up from behind the battlement, put the longbow in his hand on the arrow, and shot it at Li Guiren.

Li Guiren was wearing bright light armor, and his defense was naturally stronger than that of small soldiers, and he instinctively bent his head from the horse's back, and the arrow struck him with a bell, and quickly turned the horse's head back.

The rest of the cavalry who followed him were not so lucky, nearly a thousand Tang soldiers drew their bows and shot behind the female wall, and in an instant, more than a dozen people fell from their horses, their backs full of arrows, especially struggling to climb out.

Feng Changqing stood in the center of the city tower, holding the wall with both hands and laughing loudly: "I am Feng Changqing, the deputy envoy of the camp in Anxi, and Tongguan is also owned by me!" If you want to go over, pile up the corpses!"

Li Guiren was shocked and angry, waved his hand and ordered his cavalry to ride forward and shoot arrows at the city wall. Feng Changqing immediately ordered people to counterattack, bed crossbows and stone throwers were launched outside the city, and for a while arrows rained down, rocks pierced the air, and the rebels lost a group of men and horses, and hurriedly retreated.

At this time, An Shouzhong, who arrived with a large number of foot soldiers and dragged down the river cavalry, and the rebel generals Sun Xiaozhe and Zhang Tongru were also among them. After hearing that Niu Tingjie had surrendered to the enemy, Sun Xiaozhe was furious: "This dog slave of the dog day! The loss Lao Tzu still remembered to collect money and sent him dozens of cars! He actually surrendered to Li Siye!"

An Shouzhong pulled out a horizontal knife from his waist and said, "After breaking through Tongguan, I will definitely cut him into three!"

"Siege! Knock down Tongguan! ”

He and Li Guiren organized the siege again, but the Tongguan city wall was strong and towering, and there were canals to block it, so they did not carry siege baggage, and they did not even bring a few Fuyuan crossbows that could fire arrows to the city, and they retreated after losing a number of soldiers and horses.

Zhang Tongru was so anxious that he gathered Li Guiren, An Shouzhong, and Sun Xiaozhe together to discuss: "Three generals, we can't go down here, there is a Tongguan moat in front of us, and Li Siye's Hexi army is in pursuit, once they are blocked on the Tongguan Road, there is no other way to live, and then we can only jump the Yellow River!"

Sun Xiaozhe has the ability to kill people, but when it comes to fighting, he can be regarded as a layman, so he can only spread his hands and say: "What do you say?"

Li Guiren squatted on the ground and drew a map with a wooden stick: "At present, there are only two ways to go, go south from Wuguan to Nanyang, and then attack Luoyang from Nanyang." Either go north to occupy the Yellow River Pujindu, there are 100 river boats at the ferry, and after crossing to the opposite bank, follow the Yellow River to the ferry opposite Lingbao downstream, and then cross to Shaanxi County. If we don't want to be tied up in Tongguan, then we have to choose one of the two paths, how do you choose?"

Zhang Tongru twisted his beard and said: "When I was studying, I once walked the road of Wuguan, the road is wide and there are only a few passes, as long as we pass through Wuguan, we can take the opportunity to occupy Nanyang City, and then lead the army north to fight with His Majesty the Emperor Shengwu." As for Pujindu, the other side of the ferry is the territory of the Hedong Jiedu envoy, can Li Guangbi'an not send heavy troops to guard it? If the Tang army attacks while we cross the river, no matter how many people there are, they will become the belly of the fish and shrimp in the river. ”

An Shouzhong snorted and said: "I am just the opposite of your opinion, Pujin Ferry is the closest to Tongguan, as long as we act quickly, we can arrive within a day, while the Tang army has not yet discovered that we have forcibly occupied the ferry, and then cross the river under the cover of night, attack and kill the Tang army on the other side of the ferry, and then release the boat along the left bank of the Yellow River, you can easily reach Lingbao and Shaanxi County, and then withdraw to Luoyang." It seems that as Zhang Liushou said, the journey from Wuguan to Nanyang in the south is not only 800 miles? The dry food carried by our army was not much, and when we arrived at Nanyang City, we were hungry and tired, and no matter how strong we had the strength to attack the city, we would definitely be wiped out by the local Tang army. ”

Zhang Tongru and An Shouzhong's opinions reached a stalemate, and the two asked Li Guiren and Sun Xiaozhe to choose. Sun Xiaozhe carried a large amount of property and female dependents, but he was afraid that he would not be able to catch it in the Yellow River, and he was afraid that he would be taken away by the Hedong army, so he would rather choose a long way south to Nanyang. As for carrying a few carts of property on the way, he didn't think about it at all, because it was all the soldiers under him who would suffer, and he could just move his mouth as a general. Li Guiren was also willing to go south to Wuguan, because his command was full of cavalry, and the most valuable thing was the horse under his buttocks, and if he crossed the river, he would inevitably abandon a large number of horses.

Three of the four did not agree to cross the river north, An Shouzhong had to give up his opinion, and the rebel ranks appeared for a short period of democracy, but this was only a means for An Lushan's subordinates to guard against it. He used his henchman Zhang Tongru to stay in Xijing, and sent his henchman Sun Xiaozhe, who could not fight, to control him, and at the same time, Li Guiren and An Shouzhong, the two righteous sons, were older than Zhang Tongru, and the two of them each led the cavalry and infantry army without a commander, so that the power between the four people could reach a balance to ensure that they would not have different intentions.

Feng Changqing was waiting on the tower of Tongguan City, he was ready to stubbornly defend and consume the rebels, thinking that there were still a few vicious battles to fight, in order to encourage morale, he ordered that the twenty carts of property that originally belonged to the Niu Ting Rank were all distributed to the soldiers. Who knew that the rebels began to retreat from Tongguan Road with cavalry as the lead, and the galloping horse array dragged the banner towards Huayin.

Li Guiren's cavalry had just arrived in Huayin, and the two iron cavalry led by Li Siye had already arrived. After An Shouzhong offered to take the river with him, the three believed it and expressed their respect to him, and shed tears of pity.

Who knew that Li Guiren and Zhang Tongru had just left with the army, and after a short confrontation between An Shouzhong and the Flying Tiger Cavalry, they quickly broke away from the battle and turned around and ran towards the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

Duan Xiushi rode his horse to Li Siye's daxu, and suggested to him: "Doctor, An Shouzhong must be fleeing in the direction of Pujindu, and the last general is willing to lead the Han Navy to pursue." ”

Li Siye waved his hand and said: "No need, there are only more than 3,000 people left in the Luoluo River led by him, Guo Ziyi's Shuofang army has been waiting in Pujindu for a long time, and he will not be allowed to escape, and we will continue to pursue the main force of the rebels." ”

Li Guiren, Zhang Tongru, Sun Xiaozhe and others had not yet led the army out of Huayin, and the Flying Tiger Cavalry had already caught up, and the three of them were terrified, and they knew with their toes that An Shouzhong was not broken at all, but turned around and parted ways with them.

Li Guiren calculated in his heart that he couldn't escape quickly because he had Zhang Tongru and Sun Xiaozhe by his side, two burdens, and a large number of foot soldiers dragging baggage. Now that the situation is critical, it is impossible to escape completely, and only the trick of cutting off the tail of the gecko can slow down the predators who are chasing behind.

As for who will do this gecko tail, this is already self-explanatory.

"General Lee!" A cavalry general beside Sun Xiaozhe caught up from behind, crossed his hand on the horse and said, "Zhang Liushou and General Sun ask you to go over and discuss how to deal with the enemy's pursuers." ”

Li Guiren raised his head and looked down, and said lightly: "No need, I have already thought of a good strategy to retreat from the enemy." ”

When the cavalry heard this, he was happy: "Since the general has a good plan to retreat from the enemy, why not inform the two of them and save them from worrying." ”

He beckoned to the horseman and said, "Come here, I'll tell you first, and then you tell them." ”

The rider approached Li Guiren with the reins of his horse in ignorance, and just as he was about to listen, he had already drawn a horizontal knife from his waist, and suddenly slashed through the white light, and the rider fell from the horse with blood bursting from his neck. Li Guiren received the sheath, snorted contemptuously, and shouted at the team: "Tongluo cavalry, and Lu Longjun obey orders!" Go to Lantian at full speed, and those who disobey the order will be killed! ”

All the sergeants shouted loudly, and all of them increased their horsepower to whip the horse's buttocks, and no longer took care of the infantry and fled frantically.

Sun Xiaozhe, who fell behind the cavalry army, soon felt that something was wrong, the distance between the cavalry and the foot soldiers was getting wider and wider, and many war horses blew past them like a strong wind, throwing him behind his ass and eating dirt.

His forehead burst into green tendons, and he waved his whip with his teeth and claws: "me...... your eight generations of ancestors, stop! Hold it! ”